HBASE-9029 Backport HBASE-8706 Some improvement in snapshot to 0.94 (Jerry He, original patch by Matteo)

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hbase/branches/0.94@1509512 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
Merge remote branch 'origin/0.94' into 0.94-gd